Autobayng News Team
George Russell’s controlled lights-to-flag victory from pole position in last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix provided he and his Mercedes team with their second win of the 2025 season.
But Russell’s win also prevented Max Verstappen – who finished second – the chance to achieve something only one driver has ever managed before in the sport’s history: complete a full collection of victories at each of the current active circuits on the F1 calendar.
The Red Bull driver has been on the top step of the podium at all 24 tracks F1 will visit in 2025, except for Singapore’s Marina Bay circuit. Although the four-times world champion missed out on his first Singapore win, his second place finish was his fourth visit to the Marina Bay podium. Verstappen has been on the podium at every circuit he has ever raced at in Formula 1, except for just a single outlier: Mugello, where he retired in an opening lap multi-car accident during F1’s sole visit to the celebrated Italian circuit in 2020.
It was also the third time that Verstappen had started on the front row and finished second in Singapore. He has also never sat on pole position at Marina Bay, nor secured a fastest race lap there.
The last time a driver had a ‘full set’ of victories ran from 2018 to 2020. Lewis Hamilton went into the 2018 season never having won at two tracks on the calendar: Baku City Circuit and Paul Ricard, the latter a new addition to that year’s schedule. Victories in both those races that year completed his full set – the first ever achieved by a driver.
As there were no changes in the track selection on the 2019 F1 calendar, Hamilton sustained his record. But remarkably, he kept it up for another year despite the disruption caused to the calendar by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, there were at least three fewer rounds during the 2018 and 2019 seasons compared to the current calendar.
Drivers’ victories at 2025 circuits:
| Circuit | Alonso | Gasly | Hamilton | Leclerc | Norris | Ocon | Piastri | Russell | Sainz | Verstappen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Park | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Shanghai | 2 | – | 6 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Suzuka | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Sakhir | 3 | – | 5 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Jeddah | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Miami | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Imola | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Monaco | – | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Catalunya | 2 | – | 6 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 4 |
| Montreal | 1 | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 |
| Red Bull Ring | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 5 |
| Silverstone | 2 | – | 9 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 |
| Spa-Francorchamps | – | – | 5 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| Hungaroring | 1 | – | 8 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Zandvoort | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| Monza | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Baku | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Marina Bay | 2 | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| COTA | – | – | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Mexico City | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 5 |
| Interlagos | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 |
| Las Vegas | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Losail | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Yas Marina | – | – | 5 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
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Russell’s win was his fifth for Mercedes. He had received the winner’s trophy in last year’s Belgian Grand Prix podium celebrations, but was stripped of his win after he was disqualified for his car being underweight in post-race scrutineering. His victory sees him remain in fifth place in Mercedes’ all-time grand prix winners list, behind Juan Manuel Fangio’s eight victories for the Silver Arrows.
His fifth grand prix win does draw him level in victories with world champions Giuseppe Farina and Keke Rosberg, as well as Michele Alboreto, Clay Regazzoni and John Watson.
Russell’s 1’29.158 pole time set in Q3 was the fastest lap ever around the Marina Bay street circuit in its current guise, which has been used since 2023, and the fastest lap by average lap speed ever recorded in Singapore: 198.941kph.
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of the race – a 1’33.808 – which was also a new official Marina Bay lap record in race conditions. It was the seven-times world champion’s first ever fastest lap for Ferrari, as well as Ferrari’s first fastest lap of 2025. He now has 68 career fastest laps, nine fewer than overall record holder Michael Schumacher.
Hamilton became the 20th driver in F1 history to set a fastest lap in a grand prix for at least three separate manufacturers, joining the likes of Kimi Raikkonen, Michael Schumacher, Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna and Niki Lauda, having secured fastest race laps for McLaren, Mercedes and now Ferrari. Fernando Alonso has fastest laps for four constructors in his career: Renault, McLaren, Ferrari and Aston Martin, a figure he shares with fellow champions Fangio and Alain Prost, but also Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez. Stirling Moss holds the overall record with fastest laps for six different constructors.
However, Hamilton has now set the record for the longest run of consecutive seasons with at least one fastest race lap with 16, set between 2010 and 2025. That beats Michael Schumacher’s previous record of 15 straight seasons between 1992 and 2006.
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McLaren secured the constructors’ championship, courtesy of drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finishing third and fourth, respectively. It is the Woking-based team’s second straight constructors’ title and the tenth in the team’s history, moving them ahead of Williams into sole possession of second place in the all-time rankings behind Ferrari, the record holders with 16 constructors’ titles.
Fernando Alonso finished eighth on track, but was promoted to seventh in the final standings courtesy of Hamilton’s five-second post-race time penalty for exceeding track limits multiple times in the closing laps with his braking problems. But the six points the Aston Martin driver received moved him up into 11th place in the drivers’ championship – ahead of team mate Lance Stroll for the first time in 2025.
For the first 14 editions of the Singapore Grand Prix, the race had a 100% Safety Car deployment rate with all 14 races at Marina Bay having at least one Safety Car intervention. Last year’s race became the first in the event’s history to run green for the entire race, but last Sunday’s grand prix was the second consecutive race in Singapore without a Safety Car.
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